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<div class="SSN_title">"THE CHEEK, THE CLOAK & THE 2ND MILE"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Importance of Spirit to help understand passage such as this. Great principle, "Die to self." This illustrates how.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "TURNING THE CHEEK?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We must rid ourselves of spirit of retaliation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Starts on physical level, "smiting on cheek."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Natural impulse to strike back.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. This is what He is concerned with.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Illustration: Hudson Taylor.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. What we need is new nature.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If I am struck and great desire to hit back, yet I restrain, no credit, self righteous.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. New nature - no desire to retaliate.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Command ridiculous.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Drunk or lunatic.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Man beating up woman or child.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. I have been struck or insulted - I must defend my home.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. CLOAK & COAT.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Under Jewish law could sue for cloak (inner garment), but never for coat (outer garment).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Principle - our tendency to insist on legal rights. Our attitude towards material possessions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Compare scripture with scripture.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "If thy brother trespass against thee."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. <a onClick="return mV('Jhn',18,22);">John 18:22</a>, officer struck Christ on cheek.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">"If I have spoken evil then bear witness of the evil, but if well, why smitest thou me?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. <a onClick="return mV('Act',16,37);">Acts 16:37</a>, Paul and Silas in prison.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. We as Christians are to be very interested in judgment, righteousness and truth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Thou hast committed the weightier matters."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE SECOND MILE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Common custom in ancient world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Soldiers could command you and compel you to carry baggage one mile.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Principle - not only do what is required of us, but in spirit of Christ go beyond.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Imagine doors for witnessing that are opened in the second mile.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. "GlVE TO HIM THAT ASKETH."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Easy to interpret this in a ridiculous manner.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Principle, "What I have is mine and I hold." "I do not let go because I might suffer."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Our Lord is not encouraging us to help drunks or professional beggars.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. l <a onClick="return mV('Jhn',3,17);">John 3:17</a>&18, "If any man have worldly goods and seeth his brother in need."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">V. WE SEE HOW IT TAKES A NEW MAN TO LIVE THIS KIND OF LIFE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This is no theory for non-Christian.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. No man can live like this without Holy Spirit.</div>
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